Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1943 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated Entered at the Decatur. Ind., Poet Office at Second Clast Matter J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthoute, Sec’y A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-Preaident Subscription Rates Single Copies • 08 One week by carrier .16 By Mail Within 100 Miles One Month 35c; Three Months fl. Six months f 1.76, One Year 1300 By Mall Beyond 100 Miles One month 48c. Three months fl 25 Six months f 2.25. One year >1 00. Subscriptions for men in service >3 50 per year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Representative 3CHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 25 East Wacker Drive* Chicago, ill. Charter Members of The Indiana league of Home Dailies This is an important week for; the Red Cress campaign and March i bond sale Let's lick 'em both. —o It's spring believe it ot not and regardless of what th*, groundhog thinks If yon doubt it. look at your i.Alendai O—O This should be a record breaking war bond week in D* catur and Adams county. If we fall down now we will not meet the quota for the month. —o It won't make any difference w bethet y*u call a spade a spade or a shovel this spring but it will make a lot of difference whether or not you use one in the victory gulden. O— ) The Red Cross needs y ur contribution more this year than ever before Reports from the war fronts show how much good this organization is doing for the woundad. the ill. the hcmexick boys. —o A Stockholm report vays that Hitter has tinned his general command ovet *o a sc idler and he Is specializing cd submarin, warfare That answers the guessot on the fleets of those boats now scouring the high seas If you have neglected to get a 1*43 license tab on your automcbile, you will be wise to do so at once. The state police have beefli ordered to make a check up and find out wny It will coat more than complying with the law. -0 Hasketball Is over for the year and the fan* are bmy figuring on what the various teams will have for next year. Graduation always causes Ing losses in the team manp.wet but it gives the lower classmen a chan* , to show what they have and frequently Its plenty. U—O Food is right alongside ammunition as a necessary mesas of winning the war. A great responsibility is being plated upon 'he •a.nsers ts America this year They will meet it ts potwibic by prodU'tM the greatest crop ever grown City and town folk can help by planting Victory gardens Will we do It? —o ft's flood qeasun and always when that comes we may rape*' aertate gttM'MHis sad ranch damage in the valleys along the Ohio Wabash WhMe and other Indiana rivers. Every precMtion is being taken to prevent uauece.-sary suttnug ur locoes and Dm Btlvor aad his am klataatr arc busy in the "p'.iket" arts*. —o—i’resMetil Roosevelt does not uuw favor drafting labor and will not Minis it bet ■•ram absolutely act* aary. la that he haa the support of almost every <rac for regiatnuu itea ta a thing ♦» be avoided as much m possible. Il la belteved

I that production can he inrrrased I by the present force and that this I will be added to as more and more women engage in factory work. —o Next thing you know your child will b»- able to yell "aw gone." throw his empty milk glass across the room, and all it will do is just bounce. It may not be crystal clear It may not sparkle In the sun. but it's almost unbreakable. The army is using this new "bouncing'’ glass It is not on the market for civilians, yet-but It will be. once the war is won. — Hartford City News-Times. —o Our hearty congratulations and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Sephtis Melchi who yesterday celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Actual date for the event was last Friday but the celebration wag held yesterday so the entire family could be present. A larger event had been plann-d hut Mrs Melchi's poor health caused a postponement of this. Mr Melchi has served as a police officer here the past thirtythree years, serving as county sheriff and as city chief He is still a valued member of the local force. Everybody in the community joins us in extending best wishes. —o Frank C. Ball left an inspiring record of ste wardship of hie fortune His means were devoted to the enrichment o' life through educational. benevolent, fraternal and other bequests. As president of the Ball Brothers Foundation, he made large contributions to Ball State Teachers' College and the Ball Memorial Hospital, to the Y. M C. A . Y. W C. A . and the Masonic temple. The foundation assisted in the erection of an arts building, and invaluable canvases which Frank Ball acquired now hang tn Its galleries. The generosity of the brothers permitted the expansion of Ball Slate as one of Indiana's >«ding educational instf tut lens. A busy, successful man of many interests and activities, he was ever kindly, jovial and unassuming It may truly b. said of Frank C. Ball that the world Is better and hap pier because he has been its citizen. —lndianapolis Star. —o— Plant A Garden: Winning the war is becoming a very personal matter. The coat of victory, we find, is not just a matter of affecting the pocketbook. It is related, also, to thing* we wear and what we eat. It is a fairly simple matter to enrb our wanderings. Three pair f shoes, with regular trips to the repair shop, can be made to do us a year. But eating is a pretty persistent habit. They can give up a great many things and laugh They were lux urles of a sort anyway. But a food shortage Isn't fuuny. And that's what we re facing. Boys that used to work on the farm have gone to war or into the facte riee. Food bat used to be on the grocer's ■helves is going to the fighting men. It's ap to us now to get oat and dig The people of Britain did Cabbages grew in the heart of Loalon. Lettuce spreuted or. 'he top* of bomb shelters Hands that swung the golf club reached to pick up the hoe Nimble fingers that lanced over typewrite: keys took on the task of weeding It may mean the same here Be-Bwmb-r food is ammunition. Grow it' -Christian Science Monitor. ■ 0 o'—Just 'Feminjt' William Alien While MbUsher ot the Emporiy. Kansas Gazette to probnMy one of the best known aad moat widely quoted Republican eds ton in America Retarmag recently from a two weeks trip to Washing: on and New York, he wrote an editorial that bad a lot ot common raase. H< said the government at WsMiagtoa •“ •* rto ** ,be prasMeat and his cabinet. <* by congress, but mostly by big bus latis mea regrraattM tpecema that do things m a big way. Malar-

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ally SO percent of them are of «|»- posit* polltb-s to the president and his cabinet. But thoxe big businesses compose the ' bureaucrats'' that so many writers speak of so flippantly and frequ- ntly swear at. He said that practically all the critics are simply "ferninst" and hate nothing to offer that Is better What Mi White says Is known to nearly everybody who is at all at - quainted with the situation in Washington. But the easiest thing in tin- world Is to objec t and have no remedy to offer. That in one ot th great prerogatives of thia country of free speech and a free press and even a war cau not check it.— New Castle Courier-Times. o- ' ' ■ Twenty Years Aoo * March 22 — Joe Brennen buys half interest in the Lion Tire A Rubber tompany from Clyde Noble. Jack and Cal Robinson arrive from Wichita. Kansas to be at bedaide of their mother. Mrs Perry Robinson, who is seriously 111. T. F Graßker in elected president of the Decatur Chautauqua association. Bus line between Decatur and Portland will Otari operating April End H. L. Cooter of Gory here for the day and aoys son France. HI with pneumonia. Is now oat of danger. Tom Cavaalt la training five race horses at the Van Wert fair grounds. — — We whisper the B< attitudes but they are fnll of cyclones of poner.

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Gen. Giraud Thrives On Fighting. Danger Tours Front Lines In Tunisian War Allied Headquarters, North Africa. Mar. 22.—<VP» —Fighting is n< tiling new to French General Henri Giraud. Nor lx danger. He's spent most of his 64 years thriving on it. The general spent four days touring the lines in Tunisia He lived like any private aoHter. gate the order for the French to advance with the Americans against Gafsa. sought trouble Oil the front and came away partly disappointed Said he: "The enemy — le both*. — where are they?” i Giraud feund plenty of evidence that the boche had passed- A mine exploded under th- jeep ahead of bls. killing a friend. He slept on the ground in the corner ot a bombed house. But he didn't see the enemy he »o passionately desires to meet and iefeat. Giraud was with the American aud British commander*. Generals Eisenhower aud Alexander, at the front whe nGafsa was captured He toured s<i*» miles hi a Jeep through the front lines. At one I stage he watched the French move I in on Gafsa from the south while Am' rican forces poured in from the , northwest. Once Giraud's jeep , overtarned but he atrl hi» party jumped clear. HU aides had the most trouble . keeping him sway from mines. Giraud's reply to their precautions was: "The sappers and engineers hsndle 1.888 of thm daily. Why I should I hesitate to go where I should, even If mines are about?"

: Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LEK J Q. When may jiersoiul wfiaiiw be the sulsject of conversation? A. Never. Try to avoid I. my and mine, which are probably the most overworked words in the language. Q. What should one do when he receives a letter of introduction? A. He must get in touch with the bearer of the letter as soon .■• possible. Q. Is it customary for army officers to use their titles on their visiting cards? A. Yew. above the rank of Lieutenant. I .11 .1.111 S . 0 » 111 ■ ■ .1 — Terveer Properties Are Sold At Auction Roy L. Kslver. local theater owner and operator, purchased the buriness building, owned by Mine Mayrne Terveer and tenanted by the E F. Gate store, during th* auction sale held Saturday in this city. The purchase price wsj >7.990, it was reported by Roy 8. Johnson, i local auctioneer. **ho coudu< ted the sale of the Terveer properties C. E Bell, also of this city, purchased the large brick dwelling house, corner Fifth and Madison streets, for >2.600. The vacant lot. i at the end of Short Sixth street extended. also owned by Mine Terveer. was »old for M6O to Arthur i E. Voglewede. local attorney. • —o— — • Zee Gets Record Hopper ’ Han Diego. Cal. tl'l’t—A Valley Wallaby, which is s sort of bop- ! ping cousin of the Kangaroo, and native to Au.-iralia. has just been i added to the Nan Diego zoo. after i the longeM hop any membet of his r species has ever made He mad*' I tin* hop from Australia here In an airplane.

* The People’s Voice This column for the use of our readers who wish to make sug gestlons for the general good er discuss questions of interest. Please sign your name to show authenticity. It will not be used If yon prefer that it not be. o • Decatur Democrat: The Victory Tax returns to cover the three-menth period. January. February, and .March, will be mailed to every employer who has been filing returns under the Social Security act as well as additional employers whose name* have been obtained, on or about March 31. 1943 The return la due to be filed with the Office of the Collectoi of Interna! Revenue net later than April 30. 1943. The tax at tachos to all wages paid on and after January I. 1943 and the employer is required to withhold 6 percent of the amount by which the wage payment exceeds the amount exempt from withholding The amount exempt from withholding is 112 for a weekly pay period. 124 for a twu-week pay period. 826 for a semi monthly pay period. 152 for a monthly pay period, and 4624 for a year Each employe is entitled to this exemption before any tax Is withb* Id Information and blank returns may be had by calling at or writing the Office of the Collector of Internal Revenue. IndiauapolM. or by calling at the branch offices located in the following cities: Anderson. Attica. Auburn. Bedford. Bloomington, Brail. Columbus. Connersville. Crawfordsville. Decatur. Delph. East Chicago. Elkhart, Evansville. Ft M ayne. Frank fort, Gary, Greenfield, Hammond. Huntington. Jasper. Kendallville. Kokomo, Lafayette. Laporte, Lin ton. Lebanon. Logansport. Madison. Marion. Martinsville, Michigan City. Monticell . Mt Vernon. Muncie, New Albany, New Castle, Noblesville. Peru. Portland, Plymouth. Princeton. Rensselaer, Richmond. Rushville. Rochester. Salem. Seymour. Shelbyville. South Bend. Sullivan. Terre Haute. Vincennes.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR That afternoon, as the beauty and chivalry of Southern California Cohered for the running of the Del ar Handicap, quite a few persona faced disaster if The Shamrock entered and won the big race. Miilicent and Georgine, assured by Voice Garvey of the genuineness of The Shamrock's disappearance, had bet their all on Gallahadion, the ruling favorite. Loyal to Tim and Benny—at least to the extent of not wanting them to get in bad with their shipmates— they had passed the word to Chief Mulcahy that money bet on The Shamrock would be money wasted. Chief Mulcahy, arriving with a contingent of sailors, had let it be known that be was playing Gallahadion. But TAe Shamrock had not been eeratehed. Discussing the matter by the grandstand fence, Millieent and Georgine stood pat. “Even if they have found Shamrock," Georgine said, "Hell be so tuckered out and nervous, he's a cinch to lose." Yeoman Webster was holding forth on the same theory among the U.S.B. Trimble gang. “The horse is no bet today, boys. I have it straight from Tim and Benny's ioek that nobody ean find Shamrock or Tim and Benny, either. They suspect foul play by Chicago gangsters." Chief Muleahy took a grim chew of tobacco. "Agh . . . there'd better be no more shenanigans from Linn an* Dunnevan!” ho said. Then eame the astounding announcement over the park’s loud speaker system. “Attention, please ... Mr. Sedgwick’s horse, The Shamrock, has been recovered is perfect condition and returned to Ms stall! The stewards have examined the horse and will allow him to enter the Handicap!" The race track crowd reacted true to fans. A great hubbub of boos and eatealls and Bronx cheers went up. It had all been a publicity stunt—that robbery thing. The Shamrock had been in bis stall all the tune. Bat, among one gronp of turf followers, this announcement re gsated over a portable radio in Bert Sedgwick’s bathroom created real Mias Haora Templeton gave a bitter outery. be * >Uy she said. “This isn't The Shamrock! You've Imd to me xrain!" Fireman Dunnevan gulped: Seaman Linn looked at the end of his cigarette. JeUife goggled. Bert cray-" Ob doat protend innocence, nm» A vwy pretty show you let me Put on. Up Ml and half the *!a». When ail the time your ine Milon knew that they had stolon Enn Go Brack instead of The Shamrock! WaitH Jack Merrick hears about thia... oh. jtwt wait—" Bfirt grabbed her aaahe bunt into tears. “Dear, the nervous steton has bare too much. TMs la The Shamrock, alias Erin Go Bragh. Thor -', just one borne, dsar. Look at him “»«m f w Jjjp status' bto

REMOVE BODY OF GAflGsjjjß|*l»... J. J-.a.1"- 1 !. 1 ! rliWr T J B ~~ 'C $ i ■ " T ’ ■ MS' Ts B ' I I BODY OF RANK NITTI, veteran Capone syrndziU legger, is removed from the trunk of a police two unidentified detectives. He was found shot to suicide, a few hours after he had been indicted tivn by a New York Federal grand jury.

Wabash. Warsaw, and Washington, done. Will H. Smith. ficsreMl V 8 Collector of Internal ,f » P»e-<- e of » : J Revenue. District of fndiana. • , onh«<l While M 0 ly tub the spot wj In diluted peroige; g — : 7». «-i«n cloth ui -J Household Scrapbook itI By ROBERTA LEK I Cnwl ♦ * A simple bat km Damaged Wall Paper (ruit Sometimre the wail paper la dam- whi ., pe4 crHa 4 aged when moving a piece of furniture, and one has no paper such as that on the wall with which to Railroads of the V. match it. If this is the case, touch during 1946 up the vacant places with water million p na<ls at I colors to harmonize with the pat- without a fatality tern of th>- paper. The break will 14th yea- witbostn hardly be noticeable If carefully from this aesree.

Scamsn Linn carefully ex-i tinguishcd his cigarette. “Benny ... we’ll get Portxmerth 1 . . . twenty years in PorUmerth, Benny—" “Nuts! Pipe down, Tim." Then, Seaman Linn turned to Bert Sedgwick. “They's fuo horses. Mr. Sedgwick. Erin Go Brsgb and The Shamrock ia twins." “No!" “Yeah." “And my horse Is still In the race, still in the race! Ye go is, what clever wurk, Linn! I shall give you half my kingdom, if The Shamrock wins!” Elnora wrenched away from him. “1 never want to see you again, Bert," she said, and this time she really meant it “As for Tim and Benny, they must take the consequences !" Seaman Linn spoke soothingly. *"At's primature, Miss Elnora," he Mid. “A lot of things can happen in a horse race.” “J hope you both get sent to prison!” Shaking hie head, Benny untied The Shamrock's halter rope. “C'mon, Tim," he said, ’’leas T an* you be gettin* over to 'at racetrack!" The radio blared: “There they go! . . . Il’s The Shamrock in front.. All good horsemen will remember the stirring finish of that race. The hone called The Shamrock broke fast into the stretch and made up ground on Gallahadion. They were neck and neck fifty yards from the finish line. Then the big sorrel with the four white stockings, shoved Me nose and neck and withers in front of Gallahadion as they crossed the wire. But m they led the sorrel horse into the magic circle and prepared to put the flora! tribute in place, there was a sudden commotion on the trade. A small man in sweatwilted civvies appeared. With one hand be led the exact duplicate of the horse called The Shamrock. With the other he led, by the ear, a small Negro boy. His speech to the judges had the classic b«at of di truly historic pronouncementa. “Erin Go Bragh run a fine race, sirs, and I hate to ruin his fame, so on an’ so forth. But he was a nnger* Thia is his twin brother. The Shamrock!” And up piped El Perl*. The Peart “Das right. Miatah Jedgea. rah! Palate, he run de race. Whooo-whree, be sho’ ran de race! 1 to!’ dem fofiw me an* Palaie would come baek to rain’ jee* m soon as Ms foots gits well!" After that, all was very still. This moment of rilenee, so pregnant with doom and disaster, had it* counterpart two hours later In the storeroom brig of the U. 8. Deatroyer Trtmbte. Fireman Dunnevan gulped and looked out the porthole. '’eaman Linn Mt on an upturned slopbucket and chewed a toothpick. ' B* i-r . “Yeah." “Aiat it orful nice to be baek tn t ’ r, ° “ bridamt it. Brea* “Yeah." “What's the c-ibrees the Skip got agateiM ua. Beany! I was too reaut to listen good. • "Aw, nothin* muck Hone steaL

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lin', breakin’ ar’ estafl mayhem *>n •'* ' ?*. tte bu.*inos *i<-ai with IM a Navy junior try-B rest, so or. ar.'Mforkß An awt-il i lieretUM "But, Bei.ay!'' I “Yeah." I “The wont of it • Sedgw iek gotata>,sftl to help him. Yem!"! “Well. Tim. you fifl from his angk. Twte off'n the turf for lifcJ “But it cured uaa y "Yeah" J “An’ Miss E'norate back. so*'f u« ■her '.tte ous breakuu»T.. 1 Ktl ny.” I “Clap har.!«. I!»bl His pal's glum b.M ried Firemar. Stur.tttte , “Chur up. Berny. ean seii Enn Go Bto 1 Crosby for fifteez ■ maybe twenty." I Seaman Linn nwal “I got no in-ter-estj It ain’t neither her* , how. One thing ’«I said was the goods I that's got the best '-W U. 8. Navy at htartj messing around bsyfl 1 elephants with c:y:!iifi got Hitler *n’ their I care of, an’ IT. he 00 H 1 out to Guam." I “Net! Skippsri M 1 to Guam." I ' “The Lawd hstos 1 ' hearts wasn't purr, to 1 force and brains to 1 mugs—" i A heavy hand nnstel “Linn . . Dunnrtfl Tim and Benny ! tion at Chief Mulera 1 bare of the I > “Note for ye 1 ye're released fr«" to fined to ship untn fto “Gee ...y*w»-’ r ! r Seaman Linn opetfl rf’Bd * ’ Door Tioi and , IVhi dM* lf* ; BMmpw*oseW**<l muat enter hrtn G«j Shontroeh-e fdarr- ** ’ of aheer feiuue- Itenu ' sot dear tert be'red I cured Mm el ' and ooMd mt hafffd I now read:' tnde / owe yv ■ /tgteg to .Verodsrat* ' to married I hod Ulth Lirot. ( ommendO I am eeire he tomtit to" me ton bare • grafra." Harrah term ; ttM the Vert ' neaeeforfiretUtß ' loatdandheUere thH Mt me at e 1 nyoßtrt | Firemar Dur-neOA Betmy'a shoulder, ■ wheezy rapture “Did. a. Benny ! that put The Pttrl <4 ■ “The Lawd don* thj . of V. 8. Mi)”" Titoi THE 5 • twwira tees w